Nutritional status as a mediator between the age-related muscle loss and frailty in community-dwelling older adults

Autor: Esma Nur Kolbaşı, Filiz Demirdağ, Gulistan Bahat Ozturk, Sadiye Murat, Gözde Balkaya Aykut, Kübra Yıldız Güler, Aytekin Oguz
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Archives of gerontology and geriatrics. 98
ISSN: 1872-6976
Popis: PURPOSE The purposes of the study were: a) to investigate the prevalence of sarcopenia, obesity and sarcopenic obesity (SO) in older adults, b) to explore the effect of nutrition as mediator of the association between these entities and frailty. MATERIALS AND METHODS Older adults (≥65 years) were evaluated based on European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People criteria for the presence/absence of sarcopenia. Obesity was diagnosed by using Zoico methodology. FRAIL scale was used to evaluate frailty and nutritional status was assessed with Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA). RESULTS Five-hundred-seventy individuals (68,9% female, mean age 74,41±6,57 years) were included. The prevalence of sarcopenia, obesity and SO were 18,6%, 28,9% and 11,2%, respectively. FRAIL scores were directly affected by having sarcopenia (β: 0.42, 95% CI: (0.21-0.67), p
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